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URMA Monthly MinT Errors at KTLH and KCTY

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Don Van Dyke, modified 1 Year ago.

URMA Monthly MinT Errors at KTLH and KCTY

Youngling Posts: 6 Join Date: 4/12/16 Recent Posts

Greetings,

My latest local feedback involves examining some MinT errors during October across the Florida Big Bend, specifically at KTLH and KCTY.  The slides can be found here.  In the case of KCTY, URMA had a larger bias when verified against the METAR than NDFD, GMOS, or NBM through the first couple of days of the forecast.  In addition, both locations are frequently dipping below the NBM 5th percentile MinT on strong radiational cooling nights.  I show a one week period in October as an example in the slides.  GMOS seems to understand this behavior the best.

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Young-Joon Kim, modified 1 Year ago.

RE: URMA Monthly MinT Errors at KTLH and KCTY

Youngling Posts: 12 Join Date: 11/15/16 Recent Posts

Bias due to radiational cooling (resulting in cold pools) is a popular source of error. A serious, recurring example is found in Canaan Valley, WV. We have analyzed a couple of cases (10 & 11) in our NBM case evaluation report.  

-yj (AFS11)

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    The most recent peer-reviewed paper on the RTMA. Published in Weather and Forecasting in 2011.
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  • Public RTMA/URMA Viewer

    Another viewer of the current RTMA/URMA, with an archive going back 24 hours. This version is open to the public, but does not contain information about the (many) restricted obs used.
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  • RAP downscaling conference preprint (23rd IIPS)

    This link is to a presentation from the (then) RUC group on how the downscaling process works. Although we now use the RAP, HRRR, and NAM, the logic of the downscaling code is mostly unchanged from this point.
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